Potree - point cloud export

[flydrones]

Hello,

When I export the point cloud into the Potree format, it create a zip file. I was expecting a html file in the zip, but there are none.
Any idea where to find the front end page?

Thanks

[mschuetz]

Hi,

Try this:
- Download potree: https://github.com/potree/potree
- Unpack the zip file generated by photoscan into the potree/resources/pointclouds directory
- Copy and rename examples/viewer.js and replace 'path:         "../resources/pointclouds/vol_total/cloud.js"' with the path to your own point cloud
- Deploy on a web server (either remote or a local web server such as apache or nginx)
- Open URL in browser. When using a local web server, make sure you are using a correct URL, i.e. starting with "http://localhost" instead of "file:///"

edit:
If nothing shows up, take a look at your browsers debug console messages. Debug console can be opened in chrome and firefox with ctrl + shift + i

[nadar]

this sounds like chinese to me.
Is there a SIMPLE way to intall a WIN64 executable and run as a viewer ?

[mschuetz]

As of now, there is not because web browsers make it quite hard to do certain things due to security policies.
You can, however, try an alternate approach to the export:

- Export as las file
- Use the PotreeConverter to create the web page from the las file.
PotreeConverter win64 exe
Microsoft VS2015 redistributable (required to run PotreeConverter)
Tutorial on how to create the web page

This still requires you to upload the result to a web server since web browser security does not allow to directly load files from disk.

[toxicmag]

Hi Markus,

the original post is rather outdated i guess or maybe i just don't find the proper way to proceed from step to step.
Is your hint below still valid, or does it neet some updates due to new versions of PotreeConverter and Metashape?

Thanks for your support.


Alex

Hi,

Try this:
- Download potree: https://github.com/potree/potree
- Unpack the zip file generated by photoscan into the potree/resources/pointclouds directory
- Copy and rename examples/viewer.js and replace 'path:         "../resources/pointclouds/vol_total/cloud.js"' with the path to your own point cloud
- Deploy on a web server (either remote or a local web server such as apache or nginx)
- Open URL in browser. When using a local web server, make sure you are using a correct URL, i.e. starting with "http://localhost" instead of "file:///"

edit:
If nothing shows up, take a look at your browsers debug console messages. Debug console can be opened in chrome and firefox with ctrl + shift + i